Τακτική επισκόπηση ειδήσεων σχετικών με τις βιβλικές σπουδές και τον αρχέγονο Χριστιανισμό
Σάββατο 17 Οκτωβρίου 2009
Το πιθάρι του Nag Hammadi / The jar of Nag Hammadi
Βιβλιοπαρουσιάσεις στο Review of Biblical Literature 17/10/2009
Rein Bos, We Have Heard That God Is with You: Preaching the Old Testament
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Brevard Childs, The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus
Reviewed by Paul E. Trainor
Billie Jean Collins, The Hittites and Their World
Reviewed by Dirk Paul Mielke
Desta Heliso, Pistis and the Righteous One: A Study of Romans 1:17 against the Background of Scripture and Second Temple Jewish Literature
Reviewed by Lars Kierspel
Jörg Lanckau, Der Herr der Träume: Eine Studie zur Funktion des Traumes in der Josefsgeschichte der Hebräischen Bibel
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet
Nicola Laneri, ed., Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Reviewed by Aren Maeir
Pekka Lindqvist, Sin at Sinai: Early Judaism Encounters Exodus 32
Reviewed by James N. Rhodes
Martin Mosse, The Three Gospels: New Testament History Introduced by the Synoptic Problem
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins
Charles Puskas, The Conclusion of Luke-Acts: The Significance of Acts 28:16-31
Reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince
Huub van de Sandt and Jürgen Zangenberg, eds., Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in Their Jewish and Christian Settings
Reviewed by William Varner
Werner Schmidt, Das Buch Jeremia: Kapitel 1-20
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels
Herman J. Selderhuis, Calvin's Theology of the Psalms
Reviewed by Randall McKinion
Andrew Sloane, At Home in a Strange Land: Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics Reviewed by Andrew Davies
Robert Stein, Mark
Reviewed by Joel F. Williams
Alan Thompson, One Lord, One People: The Unity of the Church in Acts in Its Literary Setting Reviewed by Bobby Kelly
Παρασκευή 16 Οκτωβρίου 2009
Τιμητικός τόμος για τον καθ. και ραββίνο Jeffrey H. Tigay /Festschrift for Jeffrey H. Tigay
Από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Eisenbrauns κυκλοφορεί ένας συλλογικός τόμος προς τιμήν του Jeffrey H. Tigay, ραββίνου καθηγητή της Εβραϊκής και των Σημιτικών Γλωσσών στο Παν/μιο της Pensylvannia:- David Stern, "A colleague's appreciation : 'Mr. Deuteronomy': for Jeff Tigay", XII-XVI
- Rifat Sonsino, "A student's appreciation : Dr. Tigay, my teacher", XVII-XX
- Bibliography of the publications of Jeffrey H. Tigay, XXVII-XXXIV
- Michael Carasik, "A deuteronomic voice in the Joseph story", 3-14
- Emanuel Tov, "Textual harmonizations in the ancient texts of Deuteronomy", 15-28
- Baruch J. Schwartz, "The visit of Jethro: a case of chronological displacement? : the source-critical solution", 29-48
- Nili S. Fox, "Gender transformation and transgression : contextualizing the prohibition of cross-dressing in Deuteronomy 22:5", 49-71
- S.D. Sperling, "Dinah, Innah, and related matters", 73-93
- Adele Berlin, "Sex and the single girl in Deuteronomy 22", 95-112
- Michael J. Williams, "Taking interest in taking interest", 113-132
- Yair Zakovitch, "'My father was a wandering Aramean'(Deuteronomy 26:5) or 'Edom served my father'", 133-137
- Mayer I. Gruber, "Rewritten Deuteronomy in 1QS and in m. Sotah 7:5", 139-156
- Richard C. Steiner - Sid Z. Leiman, "The lost meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2 as preserved in the Palestinian Targum to the Decalogue", 157-166
- Gary A. Rendsburg, "Israelian Hebrew features in Deuteronomy 33", 167-183
- David A.Glatt-Gilad, "Revealed and concealed : the status of the law (book) of Moses within the Deuteronomistic History", 185-199
- Ziony Zevit, "Deuteronomy in the temple : an exercise in historical imagining", 201-218
- Shalom M. Paul, "Deuteronom(ist)ic influences on Deutero-Isaiah", 219-227
- Alexander Rofé, "The scribal concern for the Torah as evidenced by the textual witnesses of the Hebrew Bible", 229-242
- Reuven Hammer, "Three midrashim concerning our great leaders, Moses and David : the doctrine of grace in Sifre Deuteronomy", 243-249
- William W. Hallo, "One God for many : philological glosses on monotheism", 253-261
- Victor A. Hurowitz, "The divinity of humankind in the Bible and the ancient Near East : a new Mesopotamian parallel", 263-274
- Israel Knohl, "Does God deceive? : an examination of the dark side of Isaiah's prophecy", 275-291
- Jacob Milgrom, "The unique features of Ezekiel's sanctuary", 293-305
- Shawn Z. Aster, "On the place of Psalm 21 in Israelite royal ideology", 307-320
- Stephen A. Geller, "Myth and syntax in Psalm 93", 321-331
- Edward L. Greenstein, "The problem of evil in the book of Job", 333-362
- Barry L. Eichler, "Examples of restatement in the laws of Hammurabi", 365-400
- Mordechai Cogan, "Literary-critical issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological perspective : additions and omissions", 401-413
- Dana M. Pike, "Biblical naming reports with al-ken qara", 415-435
- Chaim Cohen, "The ancient critical misunderstanding of Exodus 21:22-25 and its implications for the current debate on abort", 437-458
- Frederick W. Knobloch, "Linen and the linguistic dating of P", 459-474
- Andrea L. Weiss, "A new approach to metaphor in biblical poetry", 475-486
- Baruch A. Levine, "The four private persons who lost their share in the world to come : the judgment of m. Sanh. 10:2", 487-508
- Moshe Greenberg, "Hermeneutical freedom and constraint in Jewish Bible exegesis", 509-524
Στο νέο τεύχος του VigChr / In the new issue of VigChr
Dieter T. Roth, "Did Tertullian Possess a Greek Copy or Latin Translation of Marcion's Gospel?", 429-467
Επίσης στο ίδιο τεύχος δημοσιεύεται η βιβλιοκρισία της μονογραφίας του Herbert Schmid, Die Eucharistie ist Jesus. Anfänge einer Theorie des Sakraments im koptischen Philippusevangeliums, 2007 από τον Bas van Os.
Πέμπτη 15 Οκτωβρίου 2009
Μαγνητοφωνημένη διάλεξη για τους χρησμούς των θεών / Podcast on the divine oracles
Το νέο τεύχος του Australian Biblical Review
- Brian Boyle, "'Holiness has a shape' : the place of the altar in Ezekiel's visionary plan of sacral space (Ezekiel 43:1-12, 13-17, 18-27)", 1-21
- John Hill, "Writing the prophetic word : the production of the book of Jeremiah", 22-33
- James M.Trotter, :"The genre and setting of Psalm 45", 34-46
- John A. Cabrido, "A typology for discipleship : the narrative function of paidion in Matthew's story of Jesus", 47-60
- James S. MacLaren, "A note on method in historical Jesus studies", 61-71
Τετάρτη 14 Οκτωβρίου 2009
Ἀρθρα βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο νέο JETS
- Greg Goswell, “The Order of the Books in the Greek Old Testament,” 449–466
- Chee-Chiew Lee, “גים in Genesis 35:11 and the Abrahamic Promise of Blessings for the Nations,” 467–482
- Kevin W. McFadden, “The Fulfillment of the Law’s Dikaiōma: Another Look at Romans 8:1–4,” 483–497
- Andrew S. Malone, “God the Illeist: Third-Person Self-References and Trinitarian Hints in the Old Testament,” 499–518
Ένα άρθρο για την κριτική του κειμένου της ΚΔ / An article about the text criticism of the NT
Σειρά ντοκυμαντέρ για τον αρχέγονο Χριστιανισμό / Documentaries on Early Christianity
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians: Watch the full Program Online
"From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians" tells the epic story of the rise of Christianity. The four hours explore the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created the religion we now know as Christianity.
Τρίτη 13 Οκτωβρίου 2009
Ένα νέο ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα για τις διάφορες μορφές του ιουδαϊκού μονοθεϊσμού / A new project about Jewish Monotheisms
The origins and development of monotheism in ancient Israel has been one of the most significant debates within the study of the Old Testament of the last thirty years. It has generated numerous books and articles and resulted in a significant shift in the scholarly consensus and added considerably to our understanding of ancient Israelite religious life and thought. Unfortunately, the discussion is frequently concluded prematurely with the exilic ‘breakthrough’ to monotheism by Deutero-Isaiah.
A significant part of the problem is that a particular account of the nature of monotheism is held by interpreters. In this account monotheism is a stage of religion, which once reached is perceived to be self-evident to its adherents. Consequently regression into polytheism has been viewed as inconceivable. Additionally, monotheism was held to entail certain consequences, including universalism, anti-superstition and magic, ethical, aniconic. Thus, when scholars determined that Deutero-Isaiah was a monotheist, who was thought to exhibit these beliefs, it was held that true monotheism had been reached. The complicated and sophisticated history of religious change in ancient Israel had reached its goal.It is clear though that, however different early Jewish beliefs are from those of their ancestors, there existed considerable diversity in the way that Jewish belief in God and the world was conceived and articulated. In his introduction to monotheism, published in 1996, Fritz Stolz identified at least four broad categories of monotheistic thought: priestly, deuteronomistic, wisdom and apocalyptic. Representatives of these traditions show a strong commitment to the one God of Israel, YHWH, but what that means in terms of their theology and their practice can be quite different. This diversity within Jewish monotheism becomes even more apparent in the late second temple period, when we have an abundance of information about the theology and practice of the diverse groups that make up Judaism.
The Sofja-Kovalevskaja Research Group under the leadership of Dr Nathan MacDonald seeks to examine the considerable diversity in Israelite and Jewish monotheistic thought and practice during the exilic and Persian periods, particularly through an examination of the relevant biblical texts. The project consists of a small team of post-doctoral and doctoral researchers based at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen. Each of these researchers is working with a biblical book or corpus of books and seeking to re-examine them afresh for what might be learnt about the diversity of Jewish monotheism. In addition, four colloquia will take place which will see a number of advanced scholars coming to Göttingen to examine the following themes:
divine presence and absence,
eschatology, apocalyptic and power,
universalism and election, and
responses to the existence of evil.
The project has a strong contemporary resonance because of concerns expressed about the relationship between monotheism, hegemony and violence. An academic project that examines uniformity and diversity within early Jewish monotheism is important not only for the light it can shed on the history, literature and theology of the biblical texts and the second temple period, but also because it touches on issues of contemporary interest. It is a working hypothesis of the group that some of the equations of monotheism and violence are too simplistic and fail to take account of the diversity present in historical and contemporary forms of monotheism.
The Sofja-Kovalevskaja Research Group works in close collaboration with the other related research projects in the Theologische Fakultät, especially the DFG-funded Graduiertenkolleg, “Götterbilder – Gottesbilder – Weltbilder”, and with the two established Old Testament professors, Prof. Hermann Spieckermann and Prof. Reinhard Kratz. The research project runs from 2009-14 and is funded through an award of €1.65 million made by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to Dr Nathan MacDonald with the funding provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.